Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

Green Faerie:

Ok, I agree that it makes alot of sense for the song to be wrote as a result of watching the movie Dawn of The Dead.

But that seems a little surface level to me... Clearly the song is about two lovers which puts a different spin on the whole Zombie storyline. Is there a Love portion to Dawn of The Dead? Or did the writer of the song fabricate the thought of two lovers being put in this awful position? Kind of Romeo and Juliet if the two feuding families were monsters and living people, Lol.

It seems to me that Zombies could be a metaphor for something, it is possible. Can anyone think of any situations where killing a loved one to save them from a worse fate could sound right in this song. Things coming to my mind include terminal illness, and alzheimer's (I think the whole 'Vacant eyes' would be very suited to this concept as well) This song also reminds me of
'Of Mice and Men', where a friend has to kill another because other people will kill him and make it hurt.

Now i'm not saying this song is about those things, but I believe that anyone can interpret the concept of Zombies to mean anything else.

Dove Melankolia:

I know, that it´s about that movie, but secretly I wanna think that it´s about something else, like relationship or one day that changed someone´s lives...

Solitary Style.:

Absolutely love this song--five stars. I've never seen "Dawn of the Dead," though Is it any good, I wonder?

Also, what is this bed from the end? I read somewhere that the infected woman was taken to a hospital, and he killed her there.

One more thing. I didn't think you could kill a zombie, not by shooting them in the head. Is there something I don't know?

Arkanthaes:

I believe this song sinks deeper than the "Dawn of the Dead" movie.

The first 4 lines tell of his perfect lovelife - The narrator has found his soulmate and his life is perfect, and whenever he see's her he is "counting her face among the living", saying she hasn't fallen to the corporate dependencies of the modern world that they oppose.

The next 2 lines show the severity of the situation - the corporations and businesses that are trying to run are lives cannot spread out over the land, their efforts are "trapped in by all these mountains"

"Running away" to "close and tight" tells of how the narrator escapes from the public to live with his soulmate, still inside those mountains but farther from the buildings where the would-be controllers lie. He doesn't kow that just one "bite", one encounter with those corporations can change a person completely.

The end of the song describes how he comes home one day to see the corruption fully taken hold of his soulmate. Noone cares that the real perwon has gone, noone cares that the person is already "dead", choiceless and automonotonous, ecept the Narrator. He could kill her, but he can't bear to.
Though her eyes are "vacant and stained", all of the goodness he saw in her has left, they still say that they love him, so he can't kill her. But he sees that it would be pointless anyway, as, though she's still healthy, "there's a corpse in this bed"

Just my thoughts

Hte]elmee Bluth:

I think MCR's songs mean whatever they need to, to mean something to you.
That's why they're written to also be metaphorical.